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After downloading the Preview version of Azure Active Directory Connect you can start the installation by using the downloaded MSI file.

The first step is that the system will be scanned and the detected DirSync configuration will be analyzed.

DirSync is being analyzed

After the detection has been done the prerequisites are detected and ready for installation.

Prerequisites are detected and ready for installation

Next the detected prerequisites are being installed.

After the prerequisites are installed the existing version of DirSync needs to be upgraded to Azure Active Directory Connect. All the synchronization settings are migrated to the new synchronization services.
Before the upgrade can start we need to connect to Azure AD so that we are able to gather information about the Azure AD service and configure the synchronization service.
Also the Windows Server AD enterprise admin account for the on premise AD needs to be configured.
Next the DirSync tool will be uninstalled and the Azure Active Directory Connect synchronization service will be installed and configured.
After the configuration is complete, the first synchronization with the newly installed synchronization service will be done.

So now that the DirSync service has been upgraded we may want to add extra features like described in the earlier blog. Looking at the startscreen (or start menu) of Windows Server we see

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